Good morning, Colonel. Mr. George, I am afraid, if all we hear is true, you have led a dreadful life in Europe. Pete. George. Scud. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. Good morning, Mrs. Peyton. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Pete. [Knocks.] O, my---my heart! Then I'd like to hire a lady to go to auction and buy my hands. They don't seem to be scared by the threat. Don't be afraid; it ain't going for that, Judge. M'Closky. When Dion Boucicault's tragedy The Octoroon (set on a southern plantation) opened in December of 1859, many viewed the play as sectional propaganda; there was widespread disagreement, however, concerning the side for which the play argued. I don't know, but I feel it's death! Paul. Grace. At the time the judge executed those free papers to his infant slave, a judgment stood recorded against him; while that was on record he had no right to make away with his property. O! Cut, cut the rope---I choke---choke!---Ah! Sunnyside, how good you are; so like my poor Peyton. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? Is your heart free? [Aside.] No---no. Go now, George---leave me---take her with you. Scud. E.---Wahnoteefaces him.---Fight---buss. Never mind. Scud. The word Octoroon signifies "one-eighth blood" or the child of a Quadroon by a white. M'Closky. Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. What, you won't, won't ye? Hold on a bit, I get you de bottle. Scud. if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. Scud. [Conceals himself.]. Dora. Now fix yourself. M'Closky. What! This is your own house; we are under your uncle's roof; recollect yourself. Well, he has the oddest way of making love. He will love you---he must. Wahnotee appears, drunk and sorrowful, and tells them that Paul is buried near them. I brought half this ruin on this family, with my all-fired improvements. Something forcing its way through the undergrowth---it comes this way---it's either a bear or a runaway nigger. George. Paul. [Aside.] But now that vagrant love is---eh? come home---there are strangers in the house. Frank Capra, If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Dora, you are right. I won't strike him, even with words. don't think too hardly of your poor father. Den say de missus, "'Tain't for de land I keer, but for dem poor niggars---dey'll be sold---dat wot stagger me." [Sits,R.] Look thar! and will despise me, spurn me, loathe me, when he learns who, what, he has so loved.---[Aloud.] M'Closky. Zoe. Paul. tink anybody wants you to cry? [Draws revolver.] there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. Pete. Hillo! Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. I shall see this estate pass from me without a sigh, for it possesses no charm for me; the wealth I covet is the love of those around me---eyes that are rich in fond looks, lips that breathe endearing words; the only estate I value is the heart of one true woman, and the slaves I'd have are her thoughts. M'Closky. | Contact Us You told me it produced a long, long sleep. Haven't you worked like a horse? Hee! Solon. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. Get out, you cub! here's a bit of leather; [draws out mail-bags] the mail-bags that were lost! How the flames crack. No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. Scud. Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! Dido. [Laughs.]. M'Closky. Zoe. [Solon goes down and stands behind Ratts.] I say---he smoke and smoke, but nebber look out ob de fire; well knowing dem critters, I wait a long time---den he say, "Wahnotee, great chief;" den I say nothing---smoke anoder time---last, rising to go, he turn round at door, and say berry low---O, like a woman's voice, he say, "Omenee Pangeuk,"---dat is, Paul is dead---nebber see him since. [Sits,R.], Dora. I'll murder this yer crowd, [*He chases*Childrenabout; they leap over railing at back. Yes, near the quick there is a faint blue mark. *] What a good creature she is. [Aside.] Author: Dahlia Lithwick. "No. Well, he lived in New York by sittin' with his heels up in front of French's Hotel, and inventin'---. Here! Good day, ma'am. While the proceeds of this sale promises to realize less than the debts upon it, it is my duty to prevent any collusion for the depreciation of the property. Why, because I love Zoe, too, and I couldn't take that young feller from her; and she's jist living on the sight of him, as I saw her do; and they so happy in spite of this yer misery around them, and they reproachin' themselves with not feeling as they ought. Sunny. I won't hear a word! Ratts. Scud. top till I get enough of you in one place! M'Closky. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. Dora. Ya! M'Closky. I'd give half the balance of my life to wipe out my part of the work. Why not! Scud. Ha! M'Closky. Zoe. EnterPete,with lantern, andScudder,with note book,R. Scud. Dis yer prop'ty to be sold---old Terrebonne---whar we all been raised, is gwine---dey's gwine to tak it away---can't stop here no how. I tell ye, 't'ain't so---we can't do it---we've got to be sold---, Pete. George, O, forgive me! Pete. You! When I travelled round with this machine, the homely folks used to sing out, "Hillo, mister, this ain't like me!" The more bidders, the better for you. Sunny. [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. M'Closky. I'm gwine! You made her life too happy, and now these tears will be. That's Solon's wife and children, Judge. [He is borne off in boat, struggling. blaze away! D'ye feel it? We got the horses saddled, and galloped down the shell road over the Piney Patch; then coasting the Bayou Lake, we crossed the long swamps, by Paul's Path, and so came home again. Mr. Scudder, take us with you---Mr. Peyton is so slow, there's no getting him, on. Pete. Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] Terrebonne is yours. Just because my grandfather wasn't some broken-down Virginia transplant, or a stingy old Creole, I ain't fit to sit down with the same meat with them. If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. Pete. Five hundred dollars!---[*To*Thibodeaux.] Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. [*Aside to*Mrs. All Rights Reserved. he does not know, he does not know! I'll see to that. Zoe. Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. Poor child! Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? faded---is it not? In a word, I have seen and admired you! I'll have her, if it costs me my life! One hundred thousand bid for this mag---. Zoe realizes that she is in love with him too, but they cannot marry, as she is an Octoroon, and, under 19th century laws, their marriage was legally prohibited. The White Slave; or, the Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Edit The White Slave; or, the Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Yes, for you, for me, for dem little ones, dem folks cried. ExitSolon,R.U.E.] Dem little niggers is a judgment upon dis generation. Paul. M'Closky. Zoe! Zoe. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. Mrs. P.Ah! All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! If he caught the fever, were stung by a snake, or possessed of any other poisonous or unclean thing, you could pity, tend, love him through it, and for your gentle care he would love you in return. Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! [Rushes onM'Closky---M'Closkydraws his knife.]. Take that, and defend yourself. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. Scud. Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Boucicaults The Octoroon with everyone. I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. George. Zoe. Scud. You thought you had cornered me, did ye? Gentlemen, we are all acquainted with the circumstances of this girl's position, and I feel sure that no one here will oppose the family who desires to redeem the child of our esteemed and noble friend, the late Judge Peyton. [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. Paul. That boy and the Indian have gone down to the landing for the post-bags; they'll idle on the way as usual; my mare will take me across the swamp, and before they can reach the shed, I'll have purified them bags---ne'er a letter shall show this mail. Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. Scud. Fellow-citizens, you are convened and assembled here under a higher power than the law. [Cry of "fire" heard---Engine bells heard---steam whistle noise.]. Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. Scud. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. George. Zoe, what have I said to wound you? I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. ain't that a pooty gun. Mr. M'Closky has bid twenty-five thousand dollars for the Octoroon. I shall do so if you weep. Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. [Knocks.] Scud. [Wrenches it from him.] That Indian is a nuisance. Aunt, I am prouder and happier to be your nephew and heir to the ruins of Terrebonne, than I would have been to have had half Louisiana without you. air you true? What! I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. He's an Injiun---fair play. Point. None o' ye ign'rant niggars could cry for yerselves like dat. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! Ratts. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! Then, if I sink every dollar I'm worth in her purchase, I'll own that Octoroon. [Sits,R. C.]. If young George Peyton was to make you the same offer, you'd jump at it, pretty darned quick, I guess. "No. She has had the education of a lady. M'Closky. We've had talk enough; now for proof. You'll find him scenting round the rum store, hitched up by the nose. [Darts between them.] Hi! He and his apparatus arrived here, took the judge's likeness and his fancy, who made him overseer right off. Missey Zoe! And you killed him? EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. Ratts. It is such scenes as these that bring disgrace upon our Western life. But for Heaven's sake go---here comes the crowd. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. How dar you say dat, you black nigger, you? Dora. Now, what have you done to show them the distinction? By ten I was playing competitively. Zoe is your child by a quadroon slave, and you didn't free her; blood! I love one who is here, and he loves me---George. Scud. M'Closky. Scud. [Wahnotee*raises apron and runs off,*L.U.E.Paul*sits for his picture---M'Closkyappears from*R.U.E.]. Ratts. Pete. Scud. It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. Come, Paul, are you ready? Fair or foul, I'll have her---take that home with you! Here, stay! shall we have one law for the red-skin and another for the white? Are they? She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? Tousand dollars, Massa Thibodeaux. Here then, I'll put back these Peytons in Terrebonne, and they shall know you done it; yes, they'll have you to thank for saving them from ruin. It's going up dar, whar dere's no line atween folks. Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. twit him on his silence and abstraction---I'm sure it's plain enough, for he has not spoken two words to me all the day; then joke round the subject, and at last speak out. Bless'ee, Missey Zoe, here it be. There are no witnesses but a rum bottle and an old machine. Scad. Come, the hour is past. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. Scud. The Octoroon This project is the construction of an annotated, digitized text of the American and British versions of Dion Boucicault's controversial 1859 melodrama of interracial relationships and plantation life in antebellum Louisiana, with an archive of materials on performance for scholarly and pedagogical use. Cora, educated in Britain, returns to her fathers plantation in Louisiana to explore the truth about her mother's. Dido. Hold on, you'll see. you seen dem big tears in his eyes. I thought none but colored people worked. Excuse me ladies. Paul. Do you know what I am? den run to dat pine tree up dar [points,L.U.E.] and back agin, and den pull down de rag so, d'ye see? Scud. What's de charge, Mas'r Scudder? O, forgive him and me! Ay, ay! He loves me---what of that? Top a bit! McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. M'Closky. No, the love I speak of is not such as you suppose,---it is a passion that has grown up here since I arrived; but it is a hopeless, mad, wild feeling, that must perish. I can go no farther. The devil I am! No. Scud. [Sits down.] [*Takes Indian's tomahawk and steals to*Paul. Ugh! Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. [R. C.] Pardon me, madam, but do you know these papers? Wahnotee. Zoe. [Draws knife.] if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. What more d'ye want---ain't that proof enough? It carried that easy on mortgage. The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Alas! I have it. [Rising.] No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. And we all Scud. Scud. George, leave me! No, Injiun; we deal out justice here, not revenge. Paul's best friend, the Indian Wahnotee, discovers Paul's body; he can speak only poor English, however, and is unable to communicate the tragedy to anyone else. that'll save her. [C.] My dear aunt, why do you not move from this painful scene? what a bright, gay creature she is! I've got four plates ready, in case we miss the first shot. Will you forgive me? I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. Hello! George reluctantly agrees. Zoe. [*To*Ratts.] Give us evidence. Those little flowers can live, but I cannot. Now, Mr. George, between the two overseers, you and that good old lady have come to the ground; that is the state of things, just as near as I can fix it. A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese. Pete. No, no---life is good for young ting like you. Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." [1] Yah! He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? Pete. Coute Wahnotee in omenee dit go Wahnotee, poina la fa, comb a pine tree, la revieut sala, la fa. [*Takes fan from*Minnie.] Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. Zoe. Dido. The New York Times noted 'its striking merits as a sensational drama' [Looking at watch.] Good day, Mr. Thibodeaux---shall we drive down that way? Forgive him, Dora; for he knew no better until I told him. Hark! Sunny. At college they said I was a fool---I must be. European, I suppose. Hold on, Jacob, I'm coming to that---I tell ye, I'm such a fool---I can't bear the feeling, it keeps at me like a skin complaint, and if this family is sold up---. George. Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? Top Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes. *] Now, give it to me. He and Zoe admit to their love of each other; a heartbroken Dora leaves. His greatest successes however, were on London's stages. I'ss, Mas'r George. Scud. Zoe. I want Pete here a minute. The conflict centers around Zoe, "the Octoroon", a term used at the time to describe a person who was 1/8 African, 7/8 Caucasian. I wish he would make love to me. I left it last night all safe. Scud. She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. I must be going---it is late. For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! Your own Zoe, that loves you, aunty, so much, so much.---[Gets phial.] Dido. M'Closky. 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